I have a lot of then in my yard. I have one red one, which I'm told is REALLY bad. I guess they do a lot of damage.
I was watching him move for a bit one day and decided to pop the little bugger...
Loaded the 121 with a CB, tried to get him through the scope and all I could see was tan?
Looked up and a deer was in front of him.
Yeah, not going to take a deer with a .22CB.
Actually, I know of a case where a deer was downed with a .22 Colibri . . .
Back where I grew up (SW side of Chicago) there were both red and gray squirrels; they didn't get along well with each other, but both populations were
almost tame; it was a passtime for people to feed them. They'd come right up to you and beg for nuts.
And yes, you'd often find them in the street, where they'd tried to occupy the same space at the same time as a car.
Once a deer hit me; I now live in a suburb of Austin, TX which has a LOT of urban deer, and they're responsible for literally hundreds of auto/deer collisions each year in my town. One time I was just starting off from a stop sign when one of these urban deer ran smack into the side of my SUV. No dent, but there were several parallel scratches about 3" long on my door, just above the rub strip (tooth marks!) and they were wet. Deer slobber!
Felt good to know Bambi was going to be eating through a straw for a while.
And then there was the time I was a passenger in a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup driving through Gonarezhou park in Zimbabwe when we had to make a sharp swerve into the lower area alongside the road (didn't qualify as a ditch) in order to avoid hitting an elephant . . .
